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Historic Sites Attractions In Nagarjuna Sagar

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Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, one of the world’s largest and tallest Masonry dam built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar which is in Nalgonda District, Telangana State. Construction was between 1955 and 1967,the dam created a water reservoir with gross storage capacity of 11.472 billion cubic metres . The dam is 590 feet tall from its deepest foundation and 0.99 miles long with 26 flood gates which are 42 feet wide and 45 feet tall.Nagarjuna Sagar was the earliest in the series of large infrastructure projects termed as modern temples initiated for achieving the Green Revolution in India. It is also one of the earliest multi-purpose irrigation and h...
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  • 1. Nagarjunakonda Nagarjuna Sagar
    Nagarjunakonda is a historical town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 160 km west of another important historic site Amaravati Stupa. The ruins of several Mahayana Buddhist and Hindu shrines are located at Nagarjunakonda. It is one of India's richest Buddhist sites, and now lies almost entirely under the Nagarjunasagar Dam. It is named after Nagarjuna, a southern Indian master of Mahayana Buddhism who lived in the 2nd century, who is believed to have been responsible for the Buddhist activity in the area. The site was once the location of many Buddhist universities and monasteries, attracting students from as far as China, Gandhara, Bengal and Sri Lanka. Because of the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, the archaeological rel...
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  • 2. Qutb Shahi Tombs Andhra Pradesh
    The Qutb Shahi dynasty was a territory in south India. It was initially a highly Persianate Muslim Turkic dynasty established in the 16th century that eventually adopted the regional culture of the Deccan . Its members were collectively called the Qutub Shahis and were the ruling family of the kingdom of Golkonda, in and near the modern-day states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The Golconda sultanate was constantly in conflict with the Adil Shahis and Nizam Shahis. In 1636, Shah Jahan forced the Qutb Shahis to recognize Mughal suzerainty, which lasted until 1687 when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb conquered the Golcondan sultanate.
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